#tirace

[heckyeahponyscans]

The cover of the 1986 "My Little Pony 'n Friends" press kit, go hard or go home

[celestite-caroline]

📓hehe

fanfics I merely daydream about but they get weirder:

- a MLP G3 one - the crystal rainbow wand is stolen, and the Unicorn Princesses go on a journey to find it. they soon find out it is somewhere inside Midnight Castle, which a centaur wizard is rumored to guard. yes, it's a G3 Tirek one

- Predaprince introductory episode - what it says on the tin. also Predaprince sets fire to the other students' lockers and thinks it's funny

- between AOE and TLK - Wheelie brings Brains into the junkyard after the two reunite, but soon finds out his friend changed just enough for it to be concerning. they just kind of fuck around in that one but whatever

- one where AOE/TLK Optimus (let's call him knight Optimus) SOMEHOW gets into a different timeline, that is where everything after DOTM turned out okay. the hatchlings were rescued and are growing up safely, Chicago is getting rebuilt, and this timeline's Optimus and the other Autobots are slowly trying to recover from their trauma. it ends with knight Optimus killing this timeline's Optimus and taking his place, just to feel happiness again

- Robot Trains? haven't heard that one in a while - Kay and Duke get into the dimension tunnel crap again, except this time they both arrive at a timeline where the virus-ridden Duke won and took Kay's engine. they both now need to somehow save this torn apart place and its residents, which they start off by trying to look for any surviving Robot Trains (which apparently turn out to be Alf and Victor). they try to not get spotted by any citizen trains while on their mission, but this dimension's Duke becomes aware of their presence much earlier than they expect - and he's out to kill that other Kay, too

I think those are the most notable ones!

[posting-from-midnight-castle]

Okay hear me out:

Scorpan from "Rescue at Midnight Castle" is the same prince from "Glory the Magic Unicorn".

[onefey]

gen1 mlp is awesome because they had a literal centaur kidnapping ponies. TO PULL HIS CARRIAGE.

coincidentally i have been thinking about The Ponies. watching a bit of gen1 mlp. still remember how to draw them (the ponies)

[yanchamisc]

My Little Pony Rescue At Midnight Castle Size Comparison Chart

Things of interest include spellings (Tee-Jay, Tirac, Scorpan) and Twinkles mentioned by name, though no sign of either First Born or Peachy

[dapper-lil-arts]

I mean yeah g1 Tirac is better villain than g4 Tirek

G1 Tirac is the devil and is doing his evil plans entirely because he can (he even threatened to cut off a baby's head that baby being g1 spike the adoptive son of g1 Scorpan btw) g1 tirac is basically evil incarnate

And g4 Tirek has daddy issues and that's why does he does

insanity, clearly lmao. i apreciate some remix at least

[ultraericthered]

Reimagine That Villain!

So Lex Luthor, and to a lesser extent Mr. Freeze, recently got me to thinking about how many times I've seen this phenomenon: where a fictional villain begins their existence defined as one particular thing with a particular set of character traits, but then some new version of what they originated in comes along and completely reimagines the villain into something else altogether for whatever reason (usually to update the material for modern audiences), and that reinvention just hits at something so hard with the consumers of the work that it becomes what more people remember that villain as, or even the new default for how that villain is to be like in every adaptation they'll feature in. And to stress, this is not simply rewriting a villain character (which anyone could do), it is reimagining and reinventing them.

From off the top of my head, these are examples of such.

Lex Luthor famously made a shift from a mad scientist supervillain to a corrupt corporate executive in the 80's post-Crisis reboot for Superman lore, while Mr. Freeze made a shift from a petty criminal with a Freeze Ray to the quintissential tragic Anti-Villain in the 90's thanks to Batman: The Animated Series giving him that portrayal.

Jinx from League of Legends: Silly psychotic villainess -> Tragic psychotic villainess thanks to her portrayal in Arcane.

Tirac/Tirek from My Little Pony: Menacing but weak 80's villain -> a far more powerful and destructive beast in Friendship Is Magic.

Mother Gothel from the fairy tale of Rapunzel: An evil childnapping witch -> A textbook abusive mother figure in modern retellings such as Disney's Tangled or Into The Woods.

Bill Sikes from Charles' Dickens Oliver Twist: A murderous street thug -> A wealthy loan shark gangster in Disney's Oliver & Company.

Flintheart Glomgold from Disney's Duck Universe: Scrooge's "Evil Twin" -> The Poor Man's Scrooge in the 2017 DuckTales reboot.

Magica De Spell, also from Disney's Duck Universe: A Wicked Duck Witch -> The Sorceress Of Shadows in the 2017 DuckTales reboot.

Rumpelstiltskin from the fairy tale bearing his name: A Faustian deal-making, baby-stealing imp -> The Dark One in Once Upon A Time. (Parodic versions like in Shrek are discounted here).

Dr. Robotnik/Eggman from Sonic The Hedgehog: Mad Scientist Supervillain -> Mad Scientist Dictator in the initial US Sonic works, something that still does resurface from time to time and influenced Eggman as a guy with a huge fleet seeking total world domination.

Kevin 11 from Ben 10: Mutant Monster -> Evil Omnitrix Kid.

Prince Lotor from Voltron: Corny 80's villain barbaric prince -> the Magnificent Bastard he is in Voltron: Legendary Defender.

Horde Prime from Masters Of The Universe: Evil Lord of Darkness -> Evil Lord of Light in She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power.

Professor Hugo Strange, another Batman villain: Mad Scientist -> Mad Psychologist.

The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A one-off criminal samurai -> the ever-present Big Bad of the franchise.

The Mandarin from Iron Man: A Dr. Fu Manchu-esque Yellow Peril caricature -> a more modernized Fu Manchu character.

Doctor Doom from The Fantastic Four: A vain, vengeful supervillain -> Still that, AND a dictator of his own nation, which was introduced in the second F4 annual and it only got more focus over time.

Magneto from X-Men: A proud and incensed mutant terrorist with racism towards humans -> A sympathetic extremist with very solid reasons for resenting humanity due to their own racist behavior.

Thanos from the Marvel Comics Universe: A mad titan who wants to literally woo Death -> a mad titan who wants to stabilize the universe through mass death that's so well known from the MCU.

Taurus Bulba from Darkwing Duck: A ruthless criminal mastermind -> a ruthless visionary corporate scientist in 2017 DuckTales and the new Darkwing Duck it was setting up (and we still deserve, dammit!)

Roderick Kingsley from Spider-Man: A squandered supervillain -> a creator and abettor of supervillains.

Gabriel Agreste from Miraculous: A squandered supervillain in the show -> A terrorist mastermind in Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie.

Giovanni from Pokemon: A thuggish Yakuza boss -> a diabolical and charismatic mastermind mafioso in adaptations and later games.

Ganondorf/Ganon from The Legend of Zelda: An evil pig wizard -> the Great Demon King Of Evil.

Mr. Hyde from The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: An allegory for the primal darkness and evil vices within man -> An allegory for repressed desire and convenient absolution of one's guilt, seen on Once Upon A Time but it's honestly a take on the Jekyll and Hyde dichotomy I'd love to see more of in more adaptations.

Dr. Griffiths from The Invisible Man: A goofy Sci-fi Horror villain -> a common domestic abuser who is legit terrifying in the 2020 film.

The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Baum's version -> the movie version -> Elphaba in Wicked (among other movie-inspired adaptations, like Zelena in Once Upon A Time)

Professor Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes: The distant and shadowy Napoleon of Crime -> a more theatrical, flamboyant Lord of Crime in works such as Sherlock, Elementary, and Moriarty the Patriot.

The Penguin, another Batman villain: a campy deformed gentleman thief who uses birds in his crimes -> a High Society crime boss.

Poison Ivy, yet another Batman villain: insane, sexual eco-terrorist -> a compassionate yet detatched and ruthless Anti-Villainess.

Slade Wilson/Deathstroke the Terminator from the DC Comics Universe: A sociopathic masked mercenary -> A psychopathic evil mastermind in the 2003 Teen Titans series. Many later versions of Slade, on some level, take influence from that extra evil iteration.

Tara Markov/Terra from The New Teen Titans: an incurable teen sociopath who joined the Teen Titans as a spy for the Terminator and the HIVE -> the more complex, tragic and redeemable character who, like with Slade, is an influence on all later incarnations of Terra.

Shere Khan from The Jungle Book has gone through various shifts. From the lame legged thug of the original story, the more fearsome and composed villain of the 1967 Disney film, the semi-honorable criminal businessman of TaleSpin, the more honorable vigilante jungle law enforcer of the 1994 Disney film, and the very threatening and psychotic takes on him we see in modern output like the 2016 Disney film and 2018's Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.

And now to segue into the greater purpose behind this post: I'ma do my own villain reimaginings, to update certain villains into brand new modern takes on them I feel could land just as well as their existing OG iterations, or in some cases hold the potential to surpass them.

PART 1

PART 2

[booloocrew-blog]

I’d pay good money to have a my little pony DND thing be canon 

These pictures were taken from the "My Little Pony and Friends" Press Pack. It shows the cast of "Rescue At Midnight Castle" along with the Glow Friends and Potato Head Kids. Except, RaMC was complete by the time the series began. Tirac was a one shot villain. In fact, the ponies in the picture, (missing cutie marks) Posey, Flutterbye, Sparkler, Sundance and somepony else weren't there.

Neither was Danny or a Spike with wings big enough to carry him.

Plus the Stratadons are individualized and look completely different too.

There looks like there were a lot of changes between the pilot and the series.

https://sunbowmarvelarchive.blogspot.com/

It was always my opinion that RaMC was made in order to appeal to boys AND girls (even though its a girls property). After it aired, MLP was toned down with "Escape From Catrina" and "MLP and Friends". But this makes it look like Tirac was going to be a series long villain. And that My Little Pony is/was a spiritual cousin to sister show "Dungeons and Dragons"

[abearthatwrites]

The Murals in Misty's Room (because what the heck)

1) Cadance and Shining Armor's wedding (G4 - A Canterlot Wedding)

2) The Fall of Nightmare Moon / The Return of Luna (G4 - Friendship is Magic)

3) The Fall of Tirac (G1 - Rescue at Midnight Castle)

4) The Fall of the Smooze (G1 - My Little Pony: The Movie)

5) Sunny's blanket / The Return of Magic (G5 - Starscout Code)

6) The Fall of Discord (G4 - Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2)

[firebird135]

I really love the G1 My Little Pony series, and Megan is seriously one of the most awesome heroines ever. The first thing she does when she arrives in Dream Valley is try to punch a dragon that was attacking her new friends, and she just keeps going from there until she straight-up kills Tirac with the Rainbow of Light.

She’s really a great role model- she’s adventurous, brave and compassionate, but will do whatever it takes to stop the villains.

[heckyeahponyscans]

These are from the G1 My Little Pony 'n Friends presskit. However, there are some oddities! Megan is in a different outfit, Spike has wings, Sparkler and Tirac don't appear in MLP 'n Friends, and Flutterbye isn't in any animated show.

But most intriguing to me is Danny, who has a totally different design and is older than the version we got.

This also confirms that this kid on the cover of Escape from Catrina is Danny:

[erictmason]

April (80’s Villains) Week Four: “The Master of Midnight Castle”

"O Rainbow of Darkness, the Darkness sends! Now begin the Night that never ends!"

Wandering a bit off the beaten path with this one, it's Tirac, the very first "My Little Pony" villain from 1986's "Rescue At Midnight Castle"! I've always been very enamored of the idea of a Centaur as a Satanic Villain for Horses, it's the kind of conceptual play I wish we saw more of in the franchise.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Also on "surprisingly dark Hasbro cartoon villains" we have Tirac from the original MLP movie (not to be confused with Tirek from MLPFiM). He wants to bring about eternal night with his Rainbow of Darkness, and uses some pretty nasty methods to work towards it. Such as kidnapping people (mostly ponies, but at least one human) and turning them into winged beasts and enslave them to his will.

Then there's Catrina from the second movie, who is legit a drug addict.

You know there's a reason that the fandom liked to bring them back in fanfics

[cassi-mlp]

G1 extended lore didn't mess with any of that shit. Tirac basically got exploded into butterflies by the Rainbow of Light, Majesty trapped an evil witch in a painting and painted over her, the Twinkle Eye ponies stampeded their enslaver over the edge of a cliff, a witch was cast into a river that robbed her of her memories and turned her into a frog and was left there because it was "better that way," and so on.

In the show, though, you had shit like police crabs arresting evil flowers, witches who were so evil that their mother would punish them by making them eat sweets / they would harass their mother by calling her "Mom, Mommy," or "Mama" instead of by name, a shapeshifter blew up the ponies' home after disguising herself as a ghost to drive them away, a pig lady wanted to turn everyone and everything into glass so she could admire her reflection wherever she went...

80s MLP was fueled by drugs, is what I'm saying

what i love about mlp fim is that the power of friendship is not a symbolic thing it is a real and tangible force so potent it can be channeled into killing people

[yanchamisc]

My Little Pony The Movie Auditions #1

Available on the below link. There are two non-Hasbro songs and there is also an odd line missing from the final movie referencing Tirac.

Contents:

0:00-7:30 Patti Paris: Fizzy, Wind Whistler, Baby Lickety-Split, Shady, Gusty 07:47-17:18 Jonna Lee: Magic Star, Shady, Wind Whistler 17:30-27:41 Diane Pershing: Shady, Gusty, Fizzy (including singing), Baby Lickety-Split (including singing) 28:04-31:51 Deena Freeman: Baby Lickety-Split, Gusty, 32:04-36:37 Patty Dworkin: Bushwhoolie #1, Baby Sundance, Fizzy, Sweet Stuff

Link:

[dapper-lil-arts]

So g4 has an equivalent to the g1 artifact that embodies goodness the rainbow of light (the g4 equivalent being the elements of harmony)

But I don't think g4 has an equivalent to the g1 artifact that embodies evil the rainbow of darkness, which can forcibly turn folk into monstrous evil slaves , the main example being turning ponies into mindless evil dragons (honestly overall I think the rainbow of darkness is the single most terrifying artifact in fiction) (Also the character who most prominently used the rainbow of darkness is g1 Tirac)

wtf going on with these shows man evil elements of harmony coulda been fun, but the elements are always kind of a get out of jail free card for em